This view of Breckenridge, Colorado, looking northwest on Lincoln Street, is of a parade of some fifty men in suits, hats, and white Masonic aprons heading east on the dirt street toward the camera. A man with a waist-mounted bass drum leads. Spectators along the dirt street include women and girls in light-colored, bustled dresses, and numerous boys and men standing and sitting on the boardwalk facing the false fronted frame businesses lining the street. Mountains of the Tenmile Range are in the background. The parade celebrates the laying of the courthouse cornerstone, laid in 1909, and made of cement mixed with Breckenridge gold dust.

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Formerly F26272.; Hand written on back of photoprint: Laying of cornerstone - Court House. Circa 1912.; Photoprint has two diagonal tears across the top that have been mended with tape on the back.; Title hand-written on back of photoprint.; R7100019725

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F26276

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10001972.tif

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